Solicitor General

Solicitor General

The term Solicitor General or Solicitor-General may refer to:
* Solicitor-General of Australia, the second law officer of state and public servant representing the Attorney-General in court proceedings
** Solicitor-General of Victoria
** Solicitor-General of the Northern Territory
* Office of the Solicitor-General in Brazil, also known as "Advogado-Geral da União", the agency in charge of the "Public Counsel"
* Solicitor General of Canada, a role now performed by the Minister of Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness
**Solicitor General of Ontario
* Solicitor-General of Ceylon, deputy to the Attorney-General of Ceylon
* Solicitor General for England and Wales, the deputy for the Attorney General for England and Wales
* Solicitor-General (Fiji)
* Solicitor-General of Hong Kong, (Chinese: 法律政策專員) head of the Legal Policy Division of the Department of Justice (Hong Kong)
* Solicitor General of India
* Chief State Solicitor, a branch of the office of the Attorney General "of" Ireland
* Solicitor-General for Ireland, deputy to the Attorney-General "for" Ireland, until 1922
* Solicitor General of Ohio, the top appellate advocate in the state
* Solicitor-General of New Zealand, the second law officer of state and public servant representing the Attorney-General in court proceedings
* Solicitor-General of the Philippines
* Solicitor General for Sri Lanka, the deputy for the Attorney General for Sri Lanka
* Solicitor General for Scotland, the depute of the Lord Advocate
* Solicitor-General of Singapore, the deputy of the Attorney-General of Singapore
* Solicitor General of the United States, the federal government's primary advocate before the U.S. Supreme Court

ee also

*Solicitor
*Attorney General
*Justice of the Peace
*Law Officers of the Crown


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